Automation Consultant Contract Job Trends in London

Automation Consultant
England > London

The median Automation Consultant daily rate in London is £393, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 October 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 371 389 438
Rank change year-on-year +18 +49 +154
Contract jobs requiring an Automation Consultant 2 1 4
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.015% 0.006% 0.019%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.016% 0.007% 0.020%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £363 - £620
25th Percentile £367 - £763
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £393 - £1,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +25.00%
75th Percentile £437 - -
90th Percentile £452 - -
England median daily rate £425 - £1,000
% change year-on-year - - +70.21%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 12,418 15,207 20,097
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.62% 93.99% 94.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,290 9,973 14,659
10th Percentile £331 £340 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.92% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £663 £675 £694
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £512 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.57% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 204 178 218
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.43 £18.11
25th Percentile £22.69 £24.16 £22.26
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.75 £37.75
Median % change year-on-year -22.20% -5.30% +25.83%
75th Percentile £50.00 £57.50 £61.31
90th Percentile £66.92 £78.75 £76.63
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.49 £45.88
% change year-on-year -42.17% -5.21% +76.46%

Automation Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Automation Consultant' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Automation Consultant job vacancy trend in London

Automation Consultant
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Automation Consultant job vacancies in London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Automation Consultant job vacancies in London

Automation Consultant
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Automation Consultant job vacancies in London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Automation Consultant job vacancies in London

Automation Consultant
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Automation Consultant within the London region over the 6 months to 5 October 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London - 1 £425 - 1
East London - 1 £360 -
Automation Consultant
England

Automation Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 5 October 2025, Automation Consultant contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Automation Consultant in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) SpecFlow
2 1 (50.00%) Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Data Privacy
2 1 (50.00%) OneDrive
2 1 (50.00%) SDET
2 1 (50.00%) Power BI
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (50.00%) PowerApps
2 1 (50.00%) Power Automate
2 1 (50.00%) REST Assured
2 1 (50.00%) Postman
2 1 (50.00%) Backlog Management
2 1 (50.00%) Playwright
2 1 (50.00%) Regression Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum

Automation Consultant Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) OneDrive
1 1 (50.00%) Power Automate
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (50.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) Maven
1 1 (50.00%) Postman
1 1 (50.00%) REST Assured
1 1 (50.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) Playwright
1 1 (50.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Backlog Management
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Data Privacy
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) ETRM
2 1 (50.00%) Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Kanban
2 1 (50.00%) Regression Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) SDET
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) Korn
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft